HILLA, Jacques Clement- The hapless lion and snake both died in an Iraqi heatwave, but for the jugglers, clowns, fire-eater and other circus performers, the show in ancient Babylon had to go on....
PARIS- Cecile Aubry, a French film star turned author and writer of the popular 60s TV series "Belle and Sebastian", has died aged 81 after a long battle against lung cancer, her family said...
LAGOS- Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday announced plans to launch a new political party after years of harshly criticising corruption and mismanagement in the oil-rich nation.
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CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba- He wants to have phone sex, she wants to leave her house without a headscarf: a Cairo play seeks to confront Egypt's social taboos by laying bare the sexual frustrations and...
LOS ANGELES- The dream-warped Leonardo DiCaprio thriller "Inception" captivated North American audiences this weekend, landing it at the top of the box office charts, final industry figures showed...
TEGUCIGALPA- French and Honduran officials inaugurated an eight-meter replica of the Eiffel Tower on Sunday in the heart of Tegucigalpa as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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MONTREUX- Film director Roman Polanski, freed this week after Switzerland refused a US extradition request, said Saturday he felt warm affection for the country despite his arrest last year.
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HELSINKI- Divers have found bottles of champagne some 230 years old on the bottom of the Baltic which a wine expert described Saturday as tasting "fabulous".
Thought to be premium brand Veuve...
NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- When British climbing legend George Mallory took his iconic 1921 photo of Mount Everest's north face, the mighty, river-shaped glacier snaking under his feet seemed...
NICE- A thousand years of Japanese history, from ancient Buddhism to "No" theatre or manga robots, takes centre stage this summer in Monaco with a giant show devoted to the land of the rising sun....
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